Kennard & Kennard Spirit of the Bush 2 - Women’s Business - Multi

Lacquer Red, Scarlet, Salmon & Cosmos Pink, Tangerine, Lemon Yellow, Turquoise, Cobalt, Violet

This is Chern'ee's interpretation of “Walumarra” which means in the Kalkadoon language “Womens Business”. For thousands and thousands of years while the men were out hunting large game the women too were out hunting and gathering bush foods and medicines. They would use their digging sticks to dig for bush yams, honey ants and witchetty grubs. They would collect plums and bark from the wild plum bush using the plums as food and the bark to treat skin ailments. They would collect berries and wood from the conker berry bush using the berries as food or drying them out to eat at a later time and they would burn the wood for a mosquito repellent. They would collect wild lemongrass and boil it to make a lemon tea for sore throats and they would ground the pea bush seeds to use as a flour. They would collect nuts from the sandalwood tree and roast them slowly to eat like peanuts and they would collect blossoms from the hakea tree and immerse them in water for a sweet tasting drink. Larger circles are about 2-1/2", 'Women’s Business' (Walumarra) from the 'Spirit of the Bush 2' collection by Brooke Sutton.